"Think logically and dispassionately about what you'd like to do. Work out all the steps of the process -- the entire what, when, where, why, and how. Then, sit down after you are absolutely positive you know it cold, and write it out. There's an old saying, 'If you can't write it, you don't know it.' [...] On and on, you'll find yourself asking the most basic questions you hadn't focused on before taking pen to paper."
- Michael Bloomberg

Traffic Rankings for Major Business and Economics WebsitesBrian Gongol

Using and expanding upon the large (though not comprehensive) list of business and economics weblogs generated by Craig Newmark in July 2005, here is an approximation of their daily traffic, ranked first by page views and next by daily visits.

As an analytical aid, the ratio of each site's page views or visits to that of the top-rated site is also given. This is then used to illustrate a relative level of influence compared to that of the top 200 daily newspapers in the US. Thus, if a site gets 50% of the daily page views of the top website, it has a ratio of 0.500. By comparison, USA Today (the most-read newspaper) claims a maximum daily circulation of 2,528,437; the New York Times claims 1,683,855, giving it a ratio of approximately 0.666. No one would suggest that the New York Times is merely two-thirds as influential as USA Today. Thus, a site getting just half the traffic of the top-rated site in the category may still be very influential in its own right; the newspaper rankings are intended solely to illustrate that fact.

These rankings are based solely upon the websites' publicly-available traffic logs; sites without those logs clearly available for public viewing are not included in these rankings.

Next update: On or about June 3, 2013. The most recent ratings are always found at EconDirectory.com.